The Writing Desk of Jakebe Rabbit

Real update next time, I promise.

Time: 30 minutes
Distance: 3.02 miles
Top Speed: 6.5 mph
Calories: 359

Preacher Curl: 30 lbs.
Straight Arm Cable Pulldown: 45 lbs.
Seated Row: 60 lbs.
Lat Pulldown: 60 lbs.

Preacher Curl: 30 lbs.
Straight Arm Cable Pulldown: 45 lbs.
Wide Grip Lat Pulldown: 60 lbs.
Seated Row: 60 lbs.

One of the treadmills (my favorite!) is out at the resident's center, and there are a lot of people wanting to use the one remaining. I figure I would let them use it and try again tomorrow and (hopefully) Saturday.

There is a new poem, "Drone," on writerrabbit. Please stop by and tell me what you think!

Thank you all so much for all of your birthday wishes. :) I got quite a few of them over LiveJournal and text and e-mail, and I'm in the process of trying to respond to all of them. You guys rock, and I appreciate all of the good thoughts. It really does mean a lot to me.

Yesterday toob and I helped andreal celebrate his birthday at the Melting Pot. mut and I had briefly considered holding our dinner there, but quickly scrapped the idea once we saw the expense. There's no way we could ask people to pay that much on such short notice! (Though this is precisely what Andreal did, and we were delighted to, so no worries there.)

This was my first time having fondue, and I have to say it was a singularly lovely experience. We had a brilliant three cheese fondue for appetizers, a 'fondue feast', which was essentially a sampler of all the meats the restaurant was most proud of, and Smores chocolate fondue for dessert. Some of the food was so good you just had to laugh out loud, it's that ridiculous.

I got a deluxe onyx edition Scrabble board (thanks harlkyn!) and a signed copy of Fables: The March of the Wooden Soldiers (thanks mut!!), and a chocolate cake from the gang at work. I'm hoping that we can invite a friend or two to help me break in the Scrabble board some time this weekend.

For now, though, I think I will watch Derailed, drink some wine, and cuddle with my dragon.

Sorry, I had a bit of butter_cat and now I've gone all funny.

Seated Row: 60 lbs.
Cable Pulldown: 60 lbs.
Straight Arm Pushdown: 30 lbs.
Preacher Curl: 20 lbs.

Preacher curls always kill me!

The treadmills were full, will go running tomorrow and Friday.

Time: 33 minutes
Distance: 3.17 miles
Top Speed: 6.6 mph
Calories: 331

Lat Pulldown: 60 lbs.
Seated Row: 60 lbs.
Straight Arm Pushdown: 45 lbs. x2, 30 lbs. x1
Preacher Curl: 30 lbs. x2, 20 lbs x1

I really wanted to pay attention to form this time around, but push myself to do as much as I can even still. I'm pretty pleased that I was able to go a bit further than I thought I would, but there's still work to do. Hopefully next week I can get myself up to 45 lbs for the Pushdown and 30 lbs for the Preacher Curl for all three sets. With perfect form, I might add.

I've been fairly good with food so far this week, though on Tuesday I did allow myself to eat Taco Bell. I had a Gordita Supreme with beans instead of meet, Fiesta Potatoes (seasoned potatoes with cheese and sour cream? Holy shit, why have I not had this before??) and a cheese bean and rice burrito, which wasn't that good, actually. Next time I'll just get a bean burrito, and ask them to add rice. :)

Today isn't the best either; I'm having pineapple and mushroom pizza. Maybe that's the reason my weight refuses to go down. ;)